Here's the brief quote provided by Mikami with today's announcement. For those unaware, Shinji Mikami is the mind behind the creation of the Resident Evil, including being the creative force behind the original title and Resident Evil 4. He then went on to develop God Hand, then Vanquish, and then founded Tango Gameworks which is the developer behind The Evil Within:

"We're incredibly proud to announce The Evil Within. My team and I are committed to creating an exciting new franchise, providing fans the perfect blend of horror and action."

In the trailer we see three messed up monsters, for lack of a better word. A man who looks oddly like Sling Blade covered in shards of glass, a woman with an extra set of arms who looks oddly like the witch from Left 4 Dead only covered in blood, and Mikami's answer to Pyramid Head, Safe Head, who has a butcher's apron and a giant meat tenderizing hammer of sorts. When the safe opens... oh dear.

Oddly enough, The Evil Within is being announced for current-gen consoles. According to the press release, expect the game on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in 2014. Yes, a bit of a delayed, current gen release for the next big survival horror title, but certainly well worth the wait. Check the source for all of new screenshots from the game and all of IGN's exclusive coverage.

re: The Evil Within revealed, Shinji Mikami's Project Zwei to be a "perfect blend of horror and action"

quote Aussie Legend

the quality standard (except on PS3) of Bethesda.

Bear in mind, this isn't being worked on by Bethesda Game Studios (Skyrim, Fallout 3), it's Mikami's own studio, Tango. It's simply being published by Bethesda Softworks, who published such stellar games as Wet and Rouge Warrior. Granted, they also publish BGS games and Dishonored, but still.

As to the game, I remain skeptical, but I did appreciate their marketing thus far. The teaser videos were very well done.

re: The Evil Within revealed, Shinji Mikami's Project Zwei to be a "perfect blend of horror and action"

Krantos Yes of course, and whilst that is true, how many truely bad games do Bethesda publish these days? Brink? That's one, and for every Brink we have a Dishonored quality level game.

Bethesda have a great mentality, and I trust that they wouldn't be putting money behind this if they didn't think it had the potential to be great (which Brink had as well, it just was executed awfully).

Krantos Yes of course, and whilst that is true, how many truely bad games do Bethesda publish these days? Brink? That's one, and for every Brink we have a Dishonored quality level game.

Bethesda have a great mentality, and I trust that they wouldn't be putting money behind this if they didn't think it had the potential to be great (which Brink had as well, it just was executed awfully).

horror games are judged differently. At least by the genre's core fans. if this is a good shooter with decent atmosphere reviewers and general buyers are going to lap it up. even if it has shit pacing. doesn't mean it's a quality horror game (which is what it should be judged by if Mikami is attached to it). if that happens, it'll just be another nail in the AAA horror coffin. hope that doesn't happen, but the action bit he mentioned is unsettling

Krantos Yes of course, and whilst that is true, how many truely bad games do Bethesda publish these days? Brink? That's one, and for every Brink we have a Dishonored quality level game.

Bethesda have a great mentality, and I trust that they wouldn't be putting money behind this if they didn't think it had the potential to be great (which Brink had as well, it just was executed awfully).

Resident Evil 4 is regarded as one of the best action game of its time. That doesn't change the fact that Barney Teaches you ABC's was more of a horror game than RE4. Didn't stop the entire world from thinking that horror "changed" or such other nonsense like evolve or whatever.

I'm very cautious if not slightly optimistic (more like hopeful) that this is the horror game we all wanted but I wouldn't be surprised if we had another Shadows of the Damned situation going on here.